The Afrikaner Bond
… Du Toit replied to Hofmeyr in the Patriot, and on 4 July 1879 he published a draft constitution for the … from 1881 to 1884, but withdrew its backing when, in 1883-4, Scanlen called for the Imperial government to take control … his bitter disappointment.’ The entire debacle closed a chapter in the history of the Bond, which would have almost …